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...suspended adolescence. Rod hangs with his loser friends and dreams about beating up his sadistic stepfather (Ian McShane of “Deadwood”). He eventually plans an elaborate stunt to pay for dad’s heart transplant and win the heart of hottie-next-door Isla Fisher...
...Martin Fisher, 48, and Nick Moon, 51, a simple pump could be the solution to poverty for millions of Africans. They're the co-founders of KickStart, a San Francisco--based nonprofit that encourages rural entrepreneurship by providing tools that Africa's poor can afford. Since the group was founded in Nairobi in 1991 under the name ApproTEC, it has developed a machine to make building blocks, a press that extracts cooking oil from seeds, a hay baler and a series of hand-operated micro-irrigation pumps. Their latest, the MoneyMaker Hip Pump, retails in Africa...
...someone like Felix Mururi, a Kenyan in his early 30s, the hip pump made small-scale farming more profitable than working in a city. Recovering his investment within three months (the goal for every KickStart product), he felt confident enough to rent more land. But Fisher and Moon are doing more than selling a pump. They're trying to market a new model of development. Their aim, says Fisher, is "to create dignity rather than dependency and to leave in place a sustainable and dynamic private sector...
Sophomore lefty Ryan Watson relieved Brown with one out and runners on second and third, and promptly escaped the jam with one pitch—Dave Fisher lined it back through the box, Watson nabbed it, and sent it over to third base to double off the baserunner. He went on to deliver his most impressive performance to date: 3 1/3 innings of hitless relief to go with five strikeouts...
...quarters said they were registered to vote. In terms of foreign policy issues, nearly a quarter of the polled youth prioritized stabilizing Iraq, 17 percent cited genocide in Darfur, and 4 percent said they were most concerned with the “war on terrorism.” Marina Fisher ’09—the student co-chair of the IOP survey group—said that the strong youth concern for Darfur underscores the disparity between the interests of youth and government action. “The amount of attention the government is giving it is relatively...